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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1860-06-28

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Ml V61.' tX- MOUNT VErWTOlNr, OHIO, TIXTJriQIi3L."2V J"XJ3II3 QCrf lOOO. -Wo. 0-&. HIM 5 1 Hi J1Q1 will 1mm iVuii o IPjSiNt? CLEANING. JT a srrrnLEB. Tbt meTanchnfy dayt toitte.tte tfiddesfl of the v-f ir. 01 clesning paint, tnd scrubbing floors, and1 scouring tar snd near; Heaped in tne'cornert f tbe room.the ancient dirt lay quiet. Nor rose up at tbe father' tread or at toe cbiiaren-a rioi But now the carpet tre' til up, tnd from tba tftiifCiM top Tbe mlrftfeftf calls' to m'sn and tuti'd 16 wield .the broom and mop. Where are (bene room, those qoiBt rooms, the bouse but now presented, Wherein we dwelt, nor dreamed of dirt, so cozy and contented ? Alas I they're all upside down', that quiet suite) of rooms, With slop and suds, and soap" and Sand.and tubs and brooms; Cbalis, tables, stand, are standing round at sixes -and a( sevens.-While wife and housemaids fly about like meteors in the hastens. Tn'e parlor and chamber floor were cleaned a week ago Tbe carpet shook, the windows washed, as all the neighbors know; But still tbe sanctum bad escaped the table piled with books, Pen, ink and paper all abotit.peace in its' very look Till fell the women on them all, as (alls the plague on men, And then they vanished til away books, papers, ink and pen. And now' when comes the master home, as , . come' he must of nights, To find things are 'Set to wrongs" that they have "set to rights;1' When tbe sound Of driving (acts' is" heard, though the house is far from still, And the carpet wdirien oB the stairs, that harbinger o1 ill, Be looks lor papers, books or bills, that all were there before, And sighs' to find them on the desk cr io the drawer no mere; -And then ho grimly thinks of her whb Set this fuss afloat, And wishes she was" out at Sea. in a very leaky boat; He meets ber at the parlor door, with her halt and cap ary, 'With sleeves tucked up, and broom in band, defiance in her eye ; 'Ho feels quite small, and knows full well there's nothing to be said. So WleN bis tongue, and drinks his tea, and sneaks away to bed. ' EARTHQUAKES. During tbe fcrst three centuries of historic time according to our Commonly accepted chronology trieve are no earthquake . -records; and while between A. C. 1700 and A. C. WOO rhere art ft few scattered lacts, there is again, from A. C. UOO to A. C. 900, nearly a period of five hundred yeais of perfect blank, followed again with ft few exceptions, by another blank from A.' 0. 800 to A. 0 6C0. Een ir. the speeding vetitftty, but two earthquakes are recorded; so that in Tact, Records of any value for scientific analysis Ytiay he said tocotnnvnCe at the five hundredth .year before the Christian era. The sacred writings abound with elusions to earthquakes which occasioned tho destruc tion of cities; and Thucydides, Tacitus. Jo tephus, Livy, Pliny, and Julius Obscquens, make frequent mention of disasters arising from these phenomena. Thus, in the year A. C. 33 an earthquake occurred in Palestine, by which thirty thousand persons were killed Thirteen important cities were destroyed in Asia Minor six years before the Crucifixion of our Saviour; and Matthew, Luke, and Eusebins. have told ushow the earth quaked during that awful tragedy. Passing on to the filth century, we find thai tbe whole o! Europe was convulsed about that period. In the year 448, earthquakes, which lasted six months, desolated the greater part of the civilized world and in 495 Laodicea, Hierapo-lis, Tripolis, and Agathlcom, weie ov:r-whelmed, In the middle of the sixth century, (562,) bellowing noises proceeded from mountains adjoining tbe Rhone, and from the Pyrenees, followed by the falling of huge rocks and suburranean commotions, to 684 the Japanese province of Josa was visited by .a terrble earthquake, causing great destruction of life, and the loss of five hundred thou Band acres of land, which sank into the sea. la 801 tbe Basilica of St. Paul at Borne was destroyed by an earthquake felt over France, Germany, and Italy. Ia 842 tbe greater part of France was convulsed by shocks, attended by awful subterranean noises) and is worthy of remark, that on this Oceanian we bave the first record of tbe phenomenon having been followed by a severe epidemic, of which many persons died. Io 859 we read that upwards of fifteen hundred bouses were thrown down at Antioch; and in the following year Holland was greatly convulsed, and ore of the mcrnths of the Rhone suddenly closed. Tbe latter end of the ninth century witnessed a terrific earthquake in India, which destroyed one hundred and eighty thousand person's. This wss precteded by an eclipve of tba sun, the falling of showers of black meteoric stones.and followed by great storms. In 1021 exunsiva areas in Southern Germany, and especially Bavaria, were devastated by an earthquake; tbe wells were troubled, and the water in many became red, like blood. Great inundations were produced in many places, and igneous meteors were ob-gerved. In 1089 a terrible convulsion was felt over England; bouses were teen to leap npwards; trait trees were blasted) and the harvest was not gathered until the thirtieth ' of November. In 1158 the Thames was dried op, so that it conld be passed dry shod; ' and In 1179 the earth in Durban swelled up . to great height from nine in the mom- log lo.tht aettinr of the ion, and then with ft loud noise sank down again, leaving pools ol water in various places. This, howevei1, though extremely severe, was far exceed in intensity by a convulsion in April, 1185. Which' destroyed many buildings in England ihctu'd'ii.g Lincoln Cathedral. In 1348 shocks of great violence during tbe winter months desolated Europe. The earth opened in different places', and pestilential exhalations came forth', k raitf of blood is mentioned as having faftefo fn several localities. In 1505, earthquakes which1 listed, with Scarcely any Intermission, for four weeks", day and night, occurred in Cabul and Afghanistan. Tbe earth opened in many plaCes.a'nd closed again, after throwing forth water, which occupied the place of dry land. Over an area of f6rty nine square miles tbe surface Of fte earth was so altered and disturbed that parts were raided as high as an elephant above their former level, and then rank as deeply betdw it-In 1580', England, and especially Eont. Was Visited by a terrible earthquake. At Sandwich, tne Sea was so much agitated that thj ships in harbor were dashed against one another'. The same happened at Dover. The great bells at Westminster and other places tolled, buildings were thrown down, and immense damage was done; It is recorded, that during tbe visitation the heavens were serene, and the air quite tranquil. In 1626. thirty, towns and "illages" in the Neapolitan territory Were destroyed by ari eartt quake, and seventeen' thousand p'ertfoWs lost their lives; Clefts opened in the ground, lakes were dried tip, mountains riven, forests over thrown, and jets of water and mud thrown out of the wells. The Shock was accompanied by subterranean noTa'es and a smell of sul phur. In 1683 England Was again convulsed. The shocks were particularly violent in Oxfordshire. Persons on th Cherwell felt the boats in wich they were trenVble be-ea'th them; the fish rrtshed about in great alarm, and articles of domestic furniture were moved from their places. Many persons stated that they saw ignua f. tuus be lore the earthquake Tbe barometer was higher than it had been for three years. In 1692 a remarkable phe nomerfon was witnessed in Jamaica. The island rose in waves like the sea, and then sank a little, permanently. At Port Royal, three-fourths of the houses were thrown down, thiee thousand persons perished; and a pieee of land of abont one thbusind acres sank into the sea. A strange accrJent hap. pened to an inhabitant of the' fofxind. He was precipitated into one1 6f the fiSsu'reS, a'nd forcibly ejected uninjured, by a second shock. This year seems to have been famous lor earthquakes over the globe. In Sicily, forty nine towns' Slid villages, and nine hundred end seventy-two chnrches and convents, were overthrown, and ninety-three thousand persons lest their lives, The earthquakes were again very pievalrnt in Europe; the oscillations were so powerful as to l&k people in their beds: toieeS Similar to those produced by grinding stones were beard, a fid great damage was dune, The early part ol the eighteenth cehiufy was also marked by veiy violent earthquakes', (n Japan two hundred thousand persons were killed in 1703; the following year the south of Yorkshire expetienced violent shocks; doors ar.d furniture were set in motion, and a noise like the sighing of wind was beard, though tho ?r Was perfectly calm. The shocks were preceedod by a violent tempest. In September, 1726, Sicily wasagaio devas tated. A great part of Palermo wasdestroyed- Four churches, ten palaces and sixteen hun dred houses were thrown down, and six thou' sand persons perished. The earth opened and threw out burning sulphur and red hot stones, and the atmosphere appeared as if on fire. Tbe great earthquake of Lisbon, which occurred on tho first o! November, 1755, Was preceded by an onnsual large number of earth quakes in Europe particularly during the years 1749 to 1753. In 1750, (March tine- teen,) the earth in St. James' Park and elsewhere swelled UD and seemed on the point of opening; Dngv bowled dismally; fishes threw themselves out of water. One person is recorded to bave been turned on bis fcett and a girl bad her arm broken. This earthquake, and another which occurred on the twentieth of March, terrified the inhabitants of London to such a degree that to avoid the fatal effects of a more terrible shock," predicted by a madman for the eighth of April following, thousands of persons, particularly those of rank and fortune, passed the flight of the seventh of April in their Carriages and in tents in Hyde Park. A great number of strange meteorological phenomena ate recorded at having been observed in October, 1755, throughout Spain and Portugal. Indeed, for some time before the Lisbon earthquake, accounts of baloa round the sun and moon igneous, meteors, alterations In well and river water, Which generally acquired and offensive odor, besides violent thunder, lightning and rain, are to be found as having occurred in almost all parts of Enrope. Th-se phenomena, however, were most remarkable in Rutin, when the well water was discolored, rats and reptile came fonh from their holes terrified, and do mestio animals were frightened and uneasy, Tbe great Lisbon earthquake was first percieved at 9.38 A. M. The convulsion-; one of the most violent and widely extended on record, produced terrible effects over a space of tbe earth's surface Included between Ice-, land on tbe north, Mogador, in Morocco, on tbe south, TopliU in Bohemia, oo the east, and tba West India Islands on the west. It was felt in the Alps, on the shores of Sweden, in tbe West Indies, on tbe Lakes in Canada, in Ireland, Thuriagia,and Northern Gem ait. Taking tbe am convulsed at thirty tur hundred miles long and twenty-seven bandied miles wide, which Is equal to uvea mil lion flvo hundred thousand square miles, and Supposing the motion only extended to a depth' of twenty miles, there must bave been one hundred1 and fifty millions of cubic mite of solid matter put iir motion a rasa which conveys to the mfnd bewildering conception of the enormous power of tbe originating impulse. Actual shocks were not, however, felt over'the whole of this surface; in some places agitation of the water, in lakes', Canals, &o.t being the only sensible effects produced. Tbe centre of distrubance seems to have been situated beneath the Atlautio Ocean, a little west of the cost of Portugal. In Portugal it Self, and eapecily in Lisbon, the most terrible distruction to k place, partly owing, of course, to its contiguity to tbe seat of volcanio action, and partly to the nature of the earth's surface at ''.haft place. Tbe shock appears to have been' fronr west to east, and to bave IaSfed from' one minute ten minutes. The catuclated rate of motion of the earth-wave was 7955' feet. per second; at tbis rate the equatorial cirtumferenc of the earth would have been gone round in about thirty five hours. At ten o'clock on the' satn'o day, the northwest portion of Africa was violently convulsed; near Morocoa mountain opened and swallowed a village with 8000 or 10,000 people. At 11 30 Milan was; shaken; the lumps swuug in the churches; and abb'u't the same time a noise like that of a great Wave breaking on the shore was heard in Sweden and Norway, followed by shocks which shook the furniture in the bouse. The springs in the Pyrenees were affected, and in the Alps some Wells became salt. The latter part of the eighteenth century was marked by numerous violent earthquakes On the 27th of November, 1776, tbe Kentish coast experienced several shocks. Tbe day was perfectly calm'. Furniture was moved at Canterbury, Dover and Ashford. Church bells rang, sn l rumbling noises were beard, in January 1780, Sicily was again convulsed , and Etna, which had been tranquil for fourteen years, broke forth, and continued 'n violent eruption until the I6ih of June, accompanied by frightful noises. At Florence, Faenza and MarxaflleS, the earth roSe several limes, and the Mediterranean and Swiss lakes were agitated in various localities. Passing over many violent earthquakes, we come to the year 1783, When a frightful convulsion, which proved fatal tofurty thOu.-and persons, desolated Calabria and Sicily. This earthquake, unparalleled for its duration, for it may be i-aid to have lasted until in 1786. abounds with interesting phenomena. For tunately for science, these phonomenas were observed with great care by various trustworthy persons, Sent by the King of Naples to the scene 6'f the disasters, and by Sir William Hamilton, who Surveyed the Country ,at considerable personal risk, before the shock had ceased.. Tbe earthquake commenced on the Gib of February, and between that oerlod and the end of July the most violent shocks were experienced. The subsequent convulsions were comparatively slight All the towns and villages in Calabria were Shaken with tremendous violence At first those' built on loose detiiul foundations were laid low ; while Others situated 00 roCks, though greatly sha ken, for the most part remained standing. But Strange to say, the earth wave in March produced rf contrary effect. The ground yrwned throughout tbe convulsed district in a frihtliil manner. Statues and obelisks were twfrted On their pedestals' to such a degree as to give rise to the supposition that the earth had andcrgohe a twisting movement. But Mr; Mallet, with greater proba-bility.asserts thai this Movement of the stones arose from the centre of gravity of the b .Hy lying to one side of s vertical plane in (he line ol shock ; acd this is partly tbnffrmod by tbe circumstance that at the nfonestry o' St Rru-no stones were moved horizontally' upon lower stones, without tbe position Of the latter being altered. The sea in the Straits ol Messina1 waj violently agitated, the quay sank fourteen inches below toe original level, and the houses Wore much fissured, The course ol rivers was at rested "rr a moment and then rtnewed with .uch violence as to tear away every obstruc lion. In Calabria the dai kntss was so treat that lights were obliged to be used. A disagreeable odr was err perc'ptible. Many persons wre afflicted with nausea. During tbe virlent period ol tbe earthquake the weather was still and gloomy; and Vesuvius, Siromholi and Etna, were penecili quiet. In the winter ol 1797, the territory o' Qul'0 was desclated bv aternfioeartbquake. I No less than forty thousand persons are said earthquake was proceeded by loud subterra nean noises. J he great Volcano ot l ungur agna, which Usually acts as a salety-valve to this highly P ulonio region, became still and the smoke oi Pacto, another volcano seventy-five leagues distant, disappearing suddenly into the crater. The movements Of translation accompanying this snd other earthquakes in South America presented s atriku g and most rooipliflated phenomena. "Avenues of trees, ' says Humboldt, "Were moved without being uprooted; Oelds bearing dillereet kinds ol cultivation became intermixed ; and arti cles belonging to one bouse were lound among the ruins or others at a considerable distance s dl'covery which give rise to some perplexing law suits " the winter ol 1303 was attended by numerous earthquakes in Europe. On the 13th of December. Mount Blanc was violently alia ken. and a mass of ice out hundred leet in liek-ht w urecliiilated from botit aides. Shortly after this occdrnnce, the Dreven mountains i isihg Irnrn the valley of Chsmou-ni. suffering the asms eoncus-ions, and great mas of rock were detached and rolled into tbe vale below. . The lor ett this occasion must bave been enormous to produced such effects. In 1816 we find that I-vefi,s and the eoontrv round for one hundred mile su fered considerably from an earthquake. Tbe spire ol the Church wu greatly shaken, and Sixty theosand persons perished. A new and splendid quay.with its massive walla sunk with all the multitudes upon it who had. escaped from their falling houses went down in a moment into tne yawning eoesm, with all tho vessels mooted lit tha wharf, and never rose. In 1853 we made a careful itt- speotion of the . locality, and examined tbe marble mine in tbe city wdkd art stut ex tatrl,- , . , 1 tt feet at the lop twisted around, ao that tn angles of the ootagon coincided with tbe middle of the trees of the part bolow. Doors swung tn and fro. Bells rang. Tba water of Loch Levin wss rendered muddy, Usnv persons experienced sickness. Dogs howled and birds were scared Irom their roosting places. In 1811, Carolina, and the valleyS of the Mississippi, Unto and the Aikansas.were viS' ited by a tremendous earthquake, remarkable Irom the absence of volcanoes in tnose re gions. A vast area was effected; many per sons were killed; and the effect pioduced on the trees, as tbe earth-wave passed tfrrougu the forest is represented ss very extraordin ary. Although the air was perfectly still, trees were twistod and their onugns wrencn ed oft by tbe transit rarl -wave; othors. vis ited the locality in 1846, be observed that zonea of trees ado 'ted by the earthquake of 1811 were dead aud leatless.tbougu standing erect and entire. But protabfy ho earthquake of which we have any record exhibits the tremendous volcanic force so forcibly as that which occurred in 1822, in Chili- The centre of disturb' ance was Dear Valparaiso tbe city was greatly injured, and the coast along a line of twelve hundred miles was shaken. But a more wonderful phenomena was the perma nant elevation of the land! id a' height of be tween two and seven feet over an area of one hundred thousand square miles, or within one sixth of that of Great Britain and Irel'.nd. Some idea of the force exercised to sccom plished this, may be formed from a calculation made by Sir C. Lyell, that the mass uplifted contained fifty-seven cubic miles in bulk, with a circumference at tbe base of newly thirty-three miles of, assuming the great pyramid of Egypt to weigh six million tons, the mass upheaved by tbis earthquake ex ceeded the weight of One hundred thousand pyramids! Oo the 16th December, at ten P. Si., the inhabitants of tbe Neapolitan States were made aware that the terrible enemy was at their doors. Soon, to soon, the ruin came. At Naples, the furniture first, then the walls, and next whole houses rocked, while bells rang. "Terreinuoto! terremuoto!" shrieked the population, as they rushed widely reeling into the streets, invoking the aid of their favorite saints. Then came tha replica, or return earth-wave which hurltd them with ir-resistil le force sgninst the tottering walls, oe casioning in many cases intense sickness. After midnight Soveral ether shocks were felt io the city; but although the wildost pan ic reigned, during which ruffians profited by the occassion to plunder the deserted houses and commit 6utrages.it was found when day light returned tint no life had been lost, and that the damage to buildings was confined to staircases having fullen,and walls having been fissured. But although Naples thus escaped ascrib ed by the sorperstious to the belief that the blood of St Janharlus hid liquified of its own accord ruin, vfi"Je spreading, terrible, and awful as that fore.shaddwed in the Apocalypeg fell upon the land. Throughout the provinces, and nearly in every commune, buildings of all discretions was OVrnhulmed in common destruction, snd so sudden and violent was the shocks that thousands of human beings had not time to escape from their houses beneath the ruins of which they were buried In Potenza.a town of fifieCo thousand inhab itant!, about ninety miles southeast of Naples not a house rem ained In a habitable state Our penS," say tbe writers of the official re ports of the awful calamity, "fall in terror from bur hands," and no wonder, when we are assured by tbe Same authorities that this terrible and wide-spreading earthquake killed upwards Of thirty thousand human beings, be sides' injuring thousands who were buried be neath the ruins, in some cases Tor days be lore being exhumed; The phenomena1 atlehdmg this tremendous visitation were most remarkable. Tbe ground in many districts is stated to have rolled' like waves. At Resina the entire town and1 neighborhood' were in'a stale of vibration from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. on the 30th Decern- ber. At Naples, from the 16th to the 30tb of that rn'on'tn, eighty-fonr shocks were felt.and these would in all p"ro liability have been attended with great destruction1 tnd loss of life had not Vesuvius opened after the 16th of December . ' For a day or two," jays a spec tator, writing from Naples, "the mountain had been singulary undemonstrative, but on the very night of the earthquake, subsequent to the shocks, a new vent was opened, and a great quanity of smoke and stones were thtown out. A lew days after, a sound, of a violent discharge of artillery, was heard, tf a huge column of stones was shot up. It Would be useless to speculate on what might have been the consequence bad this valve not beett opened; but one fact is undeniable, that Naptea bas escaped with thiklsgs of the houses.' Mariner! it lea state that they felt tbe shocks as if their barks had struck npon the rocks;nthers sS If iNSy bad be hi twirled sud dcnlr round the vortex of a whirlpool. The effect of earthquakes npnh theses heg been much studied by Mr. Mallet. Re states that when the earth-wave passes tinder the deep Water Of tbe neean.il probably shows no prog ress at tbe surface, ' bat as it arrives In sound- Inrs.and gels into water more and more ahal low, tbe ondulation of tbe bottom, tha Crest of the long flat-shaped eartb-wave brings alotig with it carries upon bit back, as it weto-4 corresponding tqueont ondulation, slight, fong" Ind flat, upon the lurfeee of tbt water, fh it, which may be called the forced sea-wave ol eartbtfaalesV tnd1 which bat no proper motion of I U 6o, communicates tha eartbquske shocks to ship tt te, as If they had a truck upon rock." . Tbt general direction of the) earth-wives iotrtb-east of Naplet seems to bavt been from north to south, crossed however, not unfro quently, by other waves rejoiled, producing the replica or return-shock, Involving certain destruction to every object within Ui infltf- enee. At Polenta the motion was violently ondulatory, accompanied by verticial and leap log movements, causing furniture to bound upwards. Mr. Mallet, who was commissioned by tbe Royal Seociety to examine the earth shaken provinces, informs us that Soponari, a town of eight thousand inhabitants which experienced return shocks, wss absolutely reduced to powder; and photographs executed tinder bis directions show tn many instances the ordinary apparent vorticose offect of the motion. At Padua a photograph new belore ns represents a large stone statue of the Vir gin tamed on its pedestal; and lamps and ChanieKerJ Suspend from tbe ceiling were in many instances observed suddenly to swing at right angles t) their first direction of mo tion. Through out extensive areas the Und was8eemed with deepfissurts arising from landslips or ' ether Secondary causes, and roads were movod two hundred feet fromtheir original positions. Although tbe earthquake was not felt Sen sibly at Rome.the stoppage of several delicate instruments in the Observatory of that city leads the R;V. Director, Padre Secchi, to tbe conclusion that the earthquake passed under that City. Mr. Mallet traced it north of Naples, until the effects from it became lost in th alluvium near Terraeina; but in the par allel lime-stone bills and results were obsorv able ss far as Sevmonta. It would be easy to cite additional facts il lustrating tbe damage caused by this earth quake; Enough, however, has been said to show tbat the phenomena attending it were of the most awiut and ruinous nature; for be sides the destruction to property ami life, tbe catastrophe, oCC urine as it did in mid winter, Caused the poor houseless inhabitants, Who were obliged to encamp in the open ground, gaeat additional suffering, further aggravated by tbeir mdolent and supersutous habits. No wonder that the Neapolitan dreads the winter earthquake. Some travelers say: We spent the night of August 2d, 1849 on the summit of Vesu vius. It was shuddi ring and trembling with seeming sgony. We lean, d our breast on tne hih rim of the inner cone of the crater when it was belching up melted lava many feet above our beads. A river of lava was poured out on the eastern side, lorminga river of fire a mile and a ball long and a mile wide, glow ing sun beams. This vis will be Lutts.-Much as all rigbi minded men may regret the intemperate and ,11-timed speech of Senator Sumner, it cannot be said that Slavery does not daily illustrae tbe ''barbarism of Slavery". Take tho case of Waggoner, the free man told into Slavery by ''barbarians" in N wport, Ky. Fiom the Cincinnati Gatctte we cut the following showing how men who steal wil1 also lie. On the ariival of Mr. Eckart and G. P. Webster at Alexandria witGv'ths order of njunetion, tbey found the boy' Waggoner sold, although ten min ites had not elapsed since the arrival of the Sheriff's party. Webster immediately approach' d the Sheriff, II. D. Helm, who was coming from tho direction of th'u hiw office of J. U. Nelson, and asked or Waggoner ; the Sheriff answered tbat he had left in Cote pa ny with Dr. J . Q. A. Foster of Newport, in (be direction of Canton, a station on the Covington and Lexington Railruad. At that momeut, Waggoner was locked up with Foster in the office of Nelson, which was within fifty feat frortt whore the party stood, and the Sheriff repeatedly stated that he had been taken out of town, but in what direction he did not know. A few moments after Webster left, Foster- came out aud was seen at the tavern, and at 10 o'clock the same evening- be started with the boy in the direction ot Falmouth. Knowing this, the Sheriff permitted the boy to be removed although he had in his posessioh the order of injunction, restraining him and off other from selling or removing him. A young man entered a chapel pafron'ied by the nobility and tbe wealthy, and marched up the broad aisle without a pew being opened to bim. Raving gone to tba furthest extent of the aisle he wheeled around, and marching back again to the door, he disappeared. In a few minutes be reappeared, bearing on hiS shoulders a butcher's block, under tho weight of which he staggered; Alt the time bis countenance was immovable. Tbe people stared, and some in fright started from their seats; with Bibles and prayer-books in hand. At length be placed tho block io the middle of tbe aisle and got upon it. The re proach was felt every pew door new open to him. But no the stranger neither moved nor smiled, but preserved the utmost doCo-am until the Conclusion of the service, when be shouldered bis block, and slowly marched out of the church. The Labor of the Mofrmtain; lt will be recollected tbat Mr. Window", if North Carolina, the Democratic member, of the Covode Committee, made a great outciy on the subject of Republican corruption io the election of Mr, Fcranton to Congress io tbe Luzerne district, Pennsylvania. He de manded that witness should bo summoned, and tbeir testimony turned the tablet on Mr. W. completely. Mr. Winslow asked one of tbe witness bow, the great change in tbat district was effected? Mr. Buchanan bad a very large majority, and yet Mr. Schanton waa elected by tome four thousand plurality. The witnesses replied that the change was to be accounted for, first by Mr. Scranton't per-tonal popularity, and seeonJIy.by Bucbanan't unpopularity. The other witnesses made tbt same statement, end Mr. Winslow declined to exSaifne tho balance, remarking that be was satisfied be had done great injustice to Mr. Scftnt6n,nd Wtruld wake the tmeude hontrablt m tht BoOmv LITTLE-OK-N QlHlfl G 8. If wt crave tht lovt of others, wt must lovt them. Bits, in India, art called flying foxes, and measure six feet from tip to tip of their wings A tortoise has been known to livt to tbe tge of one hundred tnd seven years. Why is a tooth drawn likt a thing forgot ten? It is out of tbe bead. Railroids and stesmboata annihilate space and time, to lay nothing of a multitude ol passengers. One of the' surest signs of laiiness is, that of women using rocking chairs too much. Punch. We kn6w a dandy who is tc extremely fastidious, tbat be is always measured for his umbrella. JfoiicA. Tbe girl who iiiccoeds in winning the true love of a true man makes a lucky 'n, and is herself a lucky mist. .... ' i.. A roan being commiserated with on account of his wife's running away, said, "Don't" pity me till she comes back again." If misfortune comes into yo'ir house, be pa tient snd smile pleasantly, and it will stalk out sgain, for it can't bear cheerful company. If every man's infernal caro Were written on his brow, Bow many would our pity shard,' Who bave our envy now. Tbe question, "Can a man marry his motn r?" was recently demonstrated in the affir mative in Boston. Rev. D. G. Eddy mar ried bis own mother to Mr. Jacob Bacon. Nbws. The St. Paul Pioneer Bars Minn esota has already had tbis year an immigra tion ol 10,000 actual settlers, and farming interests were never more promising. Old Bacheior Sneer would like to know what kind of a broom the young woman in the last new novel, used, When she swept back the raven ringlets from her classic brow. How many a man, by throwing himself to tho ground in despair, crushes and destroys foTever a thousand flowers of hope that were ready to spring up and gladden all bis path way. Trtis Old Mas's Secret. An aged clergy man, who had known not one day's illness, was asked his secret. ''Dry feet and early rising," was bis reply; "these are my only two precautions " Baron Staatsb'urg, who baS imported a Cashmere goat, intending to raise his own cotton to make camol's-hair shawls with, wishes to know if there is any difference be tween Southdown mutton and mutton down south. A military officer, one day, while review ing bis company, happened to be thrown from his horse, and, as be lay eprawliogron the ground, said to a friend who ran to bis assistance, "I thought 1 bad improved in horse manship, but I find I have fallen rf." Tbe following conversation recently oc curred in a confectioner's shop in Bristol be tween two "fast" urchins under twelve years oi age: "Tom, do you smoke much now ?" ''No, the cigars are so bad now that unless a man (?) imports bis own tobacco, be can't get on with comfort." Picki.es. An excellent way to make pick les that will Keep a )car or more, is to drop them into boiling hot water, but not boil them; let tbem stay ten minutes, wipe tbem dry, and drop into cold spiced vinegar, and they will not need to be put into salt tad water.Blowing out a Candle There is one small fact in domestic economy which is not generally known, but which is useful as saving lime, trouble and temper. If tbe Candle be Mown out holding it above you, tbe wick Will not smoulder down, and may therefore be easily lighted again, but if blown opon downward tht contrary is the case; Waste not, wast not. A gentleman who had pat aside two bottles of Capital ale to recreate some friends, discovered, just before dinner, that bis Servant, a country bump kin, had emptied them both. "Scoundrel!" said his master, "what do you mean by this?" "Why. air, I saw plain enodgb, by the clouds tbat it were going to thunder, so I dr nk up the ale at once, lest it should turn sour, for there's nothing I do abominate like waste." Two dshdfeS were, Some time ago, taken before a Dublin magistrate charged with "in tending to fight a duel." Tbe justice, Who was a shrewd and waggish man, bad stroog doubts as to tbt really pugnacious inclina tion of either of the professed beligorents; to ha dismissed them opon a promise "not to carry the matter further," but added, "Gentlemen, I let yon off this time; bat, npon my conscience, if y6o are brought again before me. I'm blest if I don't bind you both down to fight." Tbey did not fight a second time. ' '' Lao'iis and lowers, "Red cbeeks are only oxygen in another shape. Qirlt anx ious to wear a pair will find tbem where the roses do out ofdoort." "Will they, indeedl" lemarked Mist Josepbint Hoops, as she laid down the number of tht paper containing tht extract "Well, if doing as tbe roses do willhelD aladr to color, one might as well never get op at all for I'm certain tart that th. flowers etev in tbeir beds all dav. f ow, if I'm over metamorphosed Into anything horticultural, I hope it w'dl bt into a camtllia tfco r the onlrveeetables that ever get a chance) to go to tbe opera gracious gooo aettt" TrumbuU'n Exposition of the Printing Corruption. r Eonator Tro'rabull's speech at Philadelphia,' albeit delivered io tbt open air, in a smart shower, contained tome rery sharp points - His brief exposition of tbe printing corruption U quite tbe most masterly thing we have yet seen on tbat su'.iject It was at follows: ,. I now watit to show you bow this work was dotfe, and make this point clear to you. One day six ordors were given for priming Post Office blanks. Tho question was asked, "Could tbe printing have been executed if this printing contained in six orders had been! contained in one order?" Aoswer: "Yes sir,"' Question "ius'tes" well?" Answer: "Muchf more economically to the printer." A voice "Ah, as!" and laughter. Question: "Can you1 conveniently state thedifferenc is the price of these six orders, computing them as separate orders' and Computing them as one order?" He answered: "Without any allowance for composition, these six orders would have cost $13,15: their actual cost was $9l.I5!' Now do you understand bow they managed to give Mr. Wendell $01 15 for work which couli hive been done for $13 1C? A VofcE Tell us the way; bit. Tbcmdull The way was this: they gave out the printing, for instance, of fifty Post Office blanks.and the printer charged for composition for setting up tbe type. That order was given, say at 9 o'clock in the morn ing, and half an hour after a second order comes for printing fifty more Post office blanks anJ the printer charged for setting op tho a second time. At ten, another order is given for GO moro, and be charges for sotting the type a third time. And so on the ordors aro multiplied; and iu one day six separate or ders for Post Offce blanks were given swelling the expenses of printing tbem, from thir-teon dollars and fifteen cents, or, if one com-' position is included, from twenty-six dollars and fifteen cents to ninety-one dollars and fifteen cents! Hear, bear. And that is tha way your Government is managed, and that is tbe way tbe expenditures of your Govern niont bave been doubled, and more than doubled, during the rule of the party which bad been in power since 1852. I cannot detain you on this question in tbis rain. Tbis ia but one illustration; the same sort of execution! of tht law runs through tbe army contracts and through tbe navy contracts. Some ot you know something about the manner ia which live oak wts" purchased for the navy, and you know something about the coal con tracts, and in this way tbe money was raised to corrupt the ballot-box and cheat the people. Now, fellow citizens, are you for retain ing in power a party guilty of such acts at these? "No." The difficulty li not in tho law, but in its execution- Tbe price for tbt public printing is fixed, but wbo would have supposed tbat a public officer would be guilty of such an outrage as to give separate orders for each Post Office blank be wanted, in order to swell the profits of tbe printer? The people of Illinois, with one of the rails' Abraham Lincoln split out thirty years ago,' have taken a purchase under this Admins tratioa. We bave p-icd up tbe Augean sta ble where theae Democrats have been revel ling for the last eight years, aud we only want Pensylvania to get boldofthe end of tha rail with us, aud we will overthrow the struc ture . Cheers. An Artistic Thief. Tbe greatest pleas'- ure enjeyed by Prince Gortschakoff, it is said is to sit in his dressing gown in a large arm chair, before an easel on which there ia a fi;ie picture. Crossing bis legs, and twinging t no on the other while he plays with his slipper and smokes cigais, he gazes for hours together on the picture. lie has a fine gallery of modern pictures, and be bad a valuable album containing sketches by the best livin(' artists; Two or three years ago a French diplomatist asked to seethe album; to bit! surprise be found the best sketches were got e and said so to the prince. "True enough."' said tbe latter; "my best sketches have been stolen out of it." ''SHen! do you suspect by whom?" "Oh, yes one of my messen gers; be tooS to imitating me in my love for art, and the rascal helped himself out of m album." "Oh, dear, no! Tho puppy showe-such deucedly good taste in tbe selections b-s mado, I Could not thibk of having him arrested."Tni Carolina Wo kk or 1780. The vir. tue and magnanimity of the Charleston ltdietv vies with tbe Spartans of old. Nothing aa:r equal tbeir adherence to the independence of1 A me ric t. The vanquishers strive all in their power to' Induct them to partake of their1 amusements, but ill tbeir Importunities can not prevail upon any of them to add a lostr- to their balls, etc. Tbey, sensible of tbfU't . ... it..:. ., t.... - ' Lief to take no pleasure but fn retiring fron pat; . view, to bemoan the cause ol -uffenng libc tv. When nothtne but tmnniul Hcatm. . - tion appeais to be hovering over every frien '. to freedom, they, like true heroines, dieeove ' an invincible firmness and resolution. . Wen the men half to steady to tbeir Country'-, good tt the women; a nation could boas' more illustrious natives than South Carol ip . To the everlasting glory of the sex, many examples can be adduced of ladtcr fxnorti-their dearest connections to behave mhh becoming fortitude; anxious lor their hrm" earnestly urging then to persereranoe, wb tbey by laudable economy art topporti' tbeir families. Are not these things noat to reanimate tbt Carolinians to recover tht oppressed Country 1Frmk ISaorft Eairf I ' tin JUvoluHm, .

Ml V61.' tX- MOUNT VErWTOlNr, OHIO, TIXTJriQIi3L."2V J"XJ3II3 QCrf lOOO. -Wo. 0-&. HIM 5 1 Hi J1Q1 will 1mm iVuii o IPjSiNt? CLEANING. JT a srrrnLEB. Tbt meTanchnfy dayt toitte.tte tfiddesfl of the v-f ir. 01 clesning paint, tnd scrubbing floors, and1 scouring tar snd near; Heaped in tne'cornert f tbe room.the ancient dirt lay quiet. Nor rose up at tbe father' tread or at toe cbiiaren-a rioi But now the carpet tre' til up, tnd from tba tftiifCiM top Tbe mlrftfeftf calls' to m'sn and tuti'd 16 wield .the broom and mop. Where are (bene room, those qoiBt rooms, the bouse but now presented, Wherein we dwelt, nor dreamed of dirt, so cozy and contented ? Alas I they're all upside down', that quiet suite) of rooms, With slop and suds, and soap" and Sand.and tubs and brooms; Cbalis, tables, stand, are standing round at sixes -and a( sevens.-While wife and housemaids fly about like meteors in the hastens. Tn'e parlor and chamber floor were cleaned a week ago Tbe carpet shook, the windows washed, as all the neighbors know; But still tbe sanctum bad escaped the table piled with books, Pen, ink and paper all abotit.peace in its' very look Till fell the women on them all, as (alls the plague on men, And then they vanished til away books, papers, ink and pen. And now' when comes the master home, as , . come' he must of nights, To find things are 'Set to wrongs" that they have "set to rights;1' When tbe sound Of driving (acts' is" heard, though the house is far from still, And the carpet wdirien oB the stairs, that harbinger o1 ill, Be looks lor papers, books or bills, that all were there before, And sighs' to find them on the desk cr io the drawer no mere; -And then ho grimly thinks of her whb Set this fuss afloat, And wishes she was" out at Sea. in a very leaky boat; He meets ber at the parlor door, with her halt and cap ary, 'With sleeves tucked up, and broom in band, defiance in her eye ; 'Ho feels quite small, and knows full well there's nothing to be said. So WleN bis tongue, and drinks his tea, and sneaks away to bed. ' EARTHQUAKES. During tbe fcrst three centuries of historic time according to our Commonly accepted chronology trieve are no earthquake . -records; and while between A. C. 1700 and A. C. WOO rhere art ft few scattered lacts, there is again, from A. C. UOO to A. C. 900, nearly a period of five hundred yeais of perfect blank, followed again with ft few exceptions, by another blank from A.' 0. 800 to A. 0 6C0. Een ir. the speeding vetitftty, but two earthquakes are recorded; so that in Tact, Records of any value for scientific analysis Ytiay he said tocotnnvnCe at the five hundredth .year before the Christian era. The sacred writings abound with elusions to earthquakes which occasioned tho destruc tion of cities; and Thucydides, Tacitus. Jo tephus, Livy, Pliny, and Julius Obscquens, make frequent mention of disasters arising from these phenomena. Thus, in the year A. C. 33 an earthquake occurred in Palestine, by which thirty thousand persons were killed Thirteen important cities were destroyed in Asia Minor six years before the Crucifixion of our Saviour; and Matthew, Luke, and Eusebins. have told ushow the earth quaked during that awful tragedy. Passing on to the filth century, we find thai tbe whole o! Europe was convulsed about that period. In the year 448, earthquakes, which lasted six months, desolated the greater part of the civilized world and in 495 Laodicea, Hierapo-lis, Tripolis, and Agathlcom, weie ov:r-whelmed, In the middle of the sixth century, (562,) bellowing noises proceeded from mountains adjoining tbe Rhone, and from the Pyrenees, followed by the falling of huge rocks and suburranean commotions, to 684 the Japanese province of Josa was visited by .a terrble earthquake, causing great destruction of life, and the loss of five hundred thou Band acres of land, which sank into the sea. la 801 tbe Basilica of St. Paul at Borne was destroyed by an earthquake felt over France, Germany, and Italy. Ia 842 tbe greater part of France was convulsed by shocks, attended by awful subterranean noises) and is worthy of remark, that on this Oceanian we bave the first record of tbe phenomenon having been followed by a severe epidemic, of which many persons died. Io 859 we read that upwards of fifteen hundred bouses were thrown down at Antioch; and in the following year Holland was greatly convulsed, and ore of the mcrnths of the Rhone suddenly closed. Tbe latter end of the ninth century witnessed a terrific earthquake in India, which destroyed one hundred and eighty thousand person's. This wss precteded by an eclipve of tba sun, the falling of showers of black meteoric stones.and followed by great storms. In 1021 exunsiva areas in Southern Germany, and especially Bavaria, were devastated by an earthquake; tbe wells were troubled, and the water in many became red, like blood. Great inundations were produced in many places, and igneous meteors were ob-gerved. In 1089 a terrible convulsion was felt over England; bouses were teen to leap npwards; trait trees were blasted) and the harvest was not gathered until the thirtieth ' of November. In 1158 the Thames was dried op, so that it conld be passed dry shod; ' and In 1179 the earth in Durban swelled up . to great height from nine in the mom- log lo.tht aettinr of the ion, and then with ft loud noise sank down again, leaving pools ol water in various places. This, howevei1, though extremely severe, was far exceed in intensity by a convulsion in April, 1185. Which' destroyed many buildings in England ihctu'd'ii.g Lincoln Cathedral. In 1348 shocks of great violence during tbe winter months desolated Europe. The earth opened in different places', and pestilential exhalations came forth', k raitf of blood is mentioned as having faftefo fn several localities. In 1505, earthquakes which1 listed, with Scarcely any Intermission, for four weeks", day and night, occurred in Cabul and Afghanistan. Tbe earth opened in many plaCes.a'nd closed again, after throwing forth water, which occupied the place of dry land. Over an area of f6rty nine square miles tbe surface Of fte earth was so altered and disturbed that parts were raided as high as an elephant above their former level, and then rank as deeply betdw it-In 1580', England, and especially Eont. Was Visited by a terrible earthquake. At Sandwich, tne Sea was so much agitated that thj ships in harbor were dashed against one another'. The same happened at Dover. The great bells at Westminster and other places tolled, buildings were thrown down, and immense damage was done; It is recorded, that during tbe visitation the heavens were serene, and the air quite tranquil. In 1626. thirty, towns and "illages" in the Neapolitan territory Were destroyed by ari eartt quake, and seventeen' thousand p'ertfoWs lost their lives; Clefts opened in the ground, lakes were dried tip, mountains riven, forests over thrown, and jets of water and mud thrown out of the wells. The Shock was accompanied by subterranean noTa'es and a smell of sul phur. In 1683 England Was again convulsed. The shocks were particularly violent in Oxfordshire. Persons on th Cherwell felt the boats in wich they were trenVble be-ea'th them; the fish rrtshed about in great alarm, and articles of domestic furniture were moved from their places. Many persons stated that they saw ignua f. tuus be lore the earthquake Tbe barometer was higher than it had been for three years. In 1692 a remarkable phe nomerfon was witnessed in Jamaica. The island rose in waves like the sea, and then sank a little, permanently. At Port Royal, three-fourths of the houses were thrown down, thiee thousand persons perished; and a pieee of land of abont one thbusind acres sank into the sea. A strange accrJent hap. pened to an inhabitant of the' fofxind. He was precipitated into one1 6f the fiSsu'reS, a'nd forcibly ejected uninjured, by a second shock. This year seems to have been famous lor earthquakes over the globe. In Sicily, forty nine towns' Slid villages, and nine hundred end seventy-two chnrches and convents, were overthrown, and ninety-three thousand persons lest their lives, The earthquakes were again very pievalrnt in Europe; the oscillations were so powerful as to l&k people in their beds: toieeS Similar to those produced by grinding stones were beard, a fid great damage was dune, The early part ol the eighteenth cehiufy was also marked by veiy violent earthquakes', (n Japan two hundred thousand persons were killed in 1703; the following year the south of Yorkshire expetienced violent shocks; doors ar.d furniture were set in motion, and a noise like the sighing of wind was beard, though tho ?r Was perfectly calm. The shocks were preceedod by a violent tempest. In September, 1726, Sicily wasagaio devas tated. A great part of Palermo wasdestroyed- Four churches, ten palaces and sixteen hun dred houses were thrown down, and six thou' sand persons perished. The earth opened and threw out burning sulphur and red hot stones, and the atmosphere appeared as if on fire. Tbe great earthquake of Lisbon, which occurred on tho first o! November, 1755, Was preceded by an onnsual large number of earth quakes in Europe particularly during the years 1749 to 1753. In 1750, (March tine- teen,) the earth in St. James' Park and elsewhere swelled UD and seemed on the point of opening; Dngv bowled dismally; fishes threw themselves out of water. One person is recorded to bave been turned on bis fcett and a girl bad her arm broken. This earthquake, and another which occurred on the twentieth of March, terrified the inhabitants of London to such a degree that to avoid the fatal effects of a more terrible shock," predicted by a madman for the eighth of April following, thousands of persons, particularly those of rank and fortune, passed the flight of the seventh of April in their Carriages and in tents in Hyde Park. A great number of strange meteorological phenomena ate recorded at having been observed in October, 1755, throughout Spain and Portugal. Indeed, for some time before the Lisbon earthquake, accounts of baloa round the sun and moon igneous, meteors, alterations In well and river water, Which generally acquired and offensive odor, besides violent thunder, lightning and rain, are to be found as having occurred in almost all parts of Enrope. Th-se phenomena, however, were most remarkable in Rutin, when the well water was discolored, rats and reptile came fonh from their holes terrified, and do mestio animals were frightened and uneasy, Tbe great Lisbon earthquake was first percieved at 9.38 A. M. The convulsion-; one of the most violent and widely extended on record, produced terrible effects over a space of tbe earth's surface Included between Ice-, land on tbe north, Mogador, in Morocco, on tbe south, TopliU in Bohemia, oo the east, and tba West India Islands on the west. It was felt in the Alps, on the shores of Sweden, in tbe West Indies, on tbe Lakes in Canada, in Ireland, Thuriagia,and Northern Gem ait. Taking tbe am convulsed at thirty tur hundred miles long and twenty-seven bandied miles wide, which Is equal to uvea mil lion flvo hundred thousand square miles, and Supposing the motion only extended to a depth' of twenty miles, there must bave been one hundred1 and fifty millions of cubic mite of solid matter put iir motion a rasa which conveys to the mfnd bewildering conception of the enormous power of tbe originating impulse. Actual shocks were not, however, felt over'the whole of this surface; in some places agitation of the water, in lakes', Canals, &o.t being the only sensible effects produced. Tbe centre of distrubance seems to have been situated beneath the Atlautio Ocean, a little west of the cost of Portugal. In Portugal it Self, and eapecily in Lisbon, the most terrible distruction to k place, partly owing, of course, to its contiguity to tbe seat of volcanio action, and partly to the nature of the earth's surface at ''.haft place. Tbe shock appears to have been' fronr west to east, and to bave IaSfed from' one minute ten minutes. The catuclated rate of motion of the earth-wave was 7955' feet. per second; at tbis rate the equatorial cirtumferenc of the earth would have been gone round in about thirty five hours. At ten o'clock on the' satn'o day, the northwest portion of Africa was violently convulsed; near Morocoa mountain opened and swallowed a village with 8000 or 10,000 people. At 11 30 Milan was; shaken; the lumps swuug in the churches; and abb'u't the same time a noise like that of a great Wave breaking on the shore was heard in Sweden and Norway, followed by shocks which shook the furniture in the bouse. The springs in the Pyrenees were affected, and in the Alps some Wells became salt. The latter part of the eighteenth century was marked by numerous violent earthquakes On the 27th of November, 1776, tbe Kentish coast experienced several shocks. Tbe day was perfectly calm'. Furniture was moved at Canterbury, Dover and Ashford. Church bells rang, sn l rumbling noises were beard, in January 1780, Sicily was again convulsed , and Etna, which had been tranquil for fourteen years, broke forth, and continued 'n violent eruption until the I6ih of June, accompanied by frightful noises. At Florence, Faenza and MarxaflleS, the earth roSe several limes, and the Mediterranean and Swiss lakes were agitated in various localities. Passing over many violent earthquakes, we come to the year 1783, When a frightful convulsion, which proved fatal tofurty thOu.-and persons, desolated Calabria and Sicily. This earthquake, unparalleled for its duration, for it may be i-aid to have lasted until in 1786. abounds with interesting phenomena. For tunately for science, these phonomenas were observed with great care by various trustworthy persons, Sent by the King of Naples to the scene 6'f the disasters, and by Sir William Hamilton, who Surveyed the Country ,at considerable personal risk, before the shock had ceased.. Tbe earthquake commenced on the Gib of February, and between that oerlod and the end of July the most violent shocks were experienced. The subsequent convulsions were comparatively slight All the towns and villages in Calabria were Shaken with tremendous violence At first those' built on loose detiiul foundations were laid low ; while Others situated 00 roCks, though greatly sha ken, for the most part remained standing. But Strange to say, the earth wave in March produced rf contrary effect. The ground yrwned throughout tbe convulsed district in a frihtliil manner. Statues and obelisks were twfrted On their pedestals' to such a degree as to give rise to the supposition that the earth had andcrgohe a twisting movement. But Mr; Mallet, with greater proba-bility.asserts thai this Movement of the stones arose from the centre of gravity of the b .Hy lying to one side of s vertical plane in (he line ol shock ; acd this is partly tbnffrmod by tbe circumstance that at the nfonestry o' St Rru-no stones were moved horizontally' upon lower stones, without tbe position Of the latter being altered. The sea in the Straits ol Messina1 waj violently agitated, the quay sank fourteen inches below toe original level, and the houses Wore much fissured, The course ol rivers was at rested "rr a moment and then rtnewed with .uch violence as to tear away every obstruc lion. In Calabria the dai kntss was so treat that lights were obliged to be used. A disagreeable odr was err perc'ptible. Many persons wre afflicted with nausea. During tbe virlent period ol tbe earthquake the weather was still and gloomy; and Vesuvius, Siromholi and Etna, were penecili quiet. In the winter ol 1797, the territory o' Qul'0 was desclated bv aternfioeartbquake. I No less than forty thousand persons are said earthquake was proceeded by loud subterra nean noises. J he great Volcano ot l ungur agna, which Usually acts as a salety-valve to this highly P ulonio region, became still and the smoke oi Pacto, another volcano seventy-five leagues distant, disappearing suddenly into the crater. The movements Of translation accompanying this snd other earthquakes in South America presented s atriku g and most rooipliflated phenomena. "Avenues of trees, ' says Humboldt, "Were moved without being uprooted; Oelds bearing dillereet kinds ol cultivation became intermixed ; and arti cles belonging to one bouse were lound among the ruins or others at a considerable distance s dl'covery which give rise to some perplexing law suits " the winter ol 1303 was attended by numerous earthquakes in Europe. On the 13th of December. Mount Blanc was violently alia ken. and a mass of ice out hundred leet in liek-ht w urecliiilated from botit aides. Shortly after this occdrnnce, the Dreven mountains i isihg Irnrn the valley of Chsmou-ni. suffering the asms eoncus-ions, and great mas of rock were detached and rolled into tbe vale below. . The lor ett this occasion must bave been enormous to produced such effects. In 1816 we find that I-vefi,s and the eoontrv round for one hundred mile su fered considerably from an earthquake. Tbe spire ol the Church wu greatly shaken, and Sixty theosand persons perished. A new and splendid quay.with its massive walla sunk with all the multitudes upon it who had. escaped from their falling houses went down in a moment into tne yawning eoesm, with all tho vessels mooted lit tha wharf, and never rose. In 1853 we made a careful itt- speotion of the . locality, and examined tbe marble mine in tbe city wdkd art stut ex tatrl,- , . , 1 tt feet at the lop twisted around, ao that tn angles of the ootagon coincided with tbe middle of the trees of the part bolow. Doors swung tn and fro. Bells rang. Tba water of Loch Levin wss rendered muddy, Usnv persons experienced sickness. Dogs howled and birds were scared Irom their roosting places. In 1811, Carolina, and the valleyS of the Mississippi, Unto and the Aikansas.were viS' ited by a tremendous earthquake, remarkable Irom the absence of volcanoes in tnose re gions. A vast area was effected; many per sons were killed; and the effect pioduced on the trees, as tbe earth-wave passed tfrrougu the forest is represented ss very extraordin ary. Although the air was perfectly still, trees were twistod and their onugns wrencn ed oft by tbe transit rarl -wave; othors. vis ited the locality in 1846, be observed that zonea of trees ado 'ted by the earthquake of 1811 were dead aud leatless.tbougu standing erect and entire. But protabfy ho earthquake of which we have any record exhibits the tremendous volcanic force so forcibly as that which occurred in 1822, in Chili- The centre of disturb' ance was Dear Valparaiso tbe city was greatly injured, and the coast along a line of twelve hundred miles was shaken. But a more wonderful phenomena was the perma nant elevation of the land! id a' height of be tween two and seven feet over an area of one hundred thousand square miles, or within one sixth of that of Great Britain and Irel'.nd. Some idea of the force exercised to sccom plished this, may be formed from a calculation made by Sir C. Lyell, that the mass uplifted contained fifty-seven cubic miles in bulk, with a circumference at tbe base of newly thirty-three miles of, assuming the great pyramid of Egypt to weigh six million tons, the mass upheaved by tbis earthquake ex ceeded the weight of One hundred thousand pyramids! Oo the 16th December, at ten P. Si., the inhabitants of tbe Neapolitan States were made aware that the terrible enemy was at their doors. Soon, to soon, the ruin came. At Naples, the furniture first, then the walls, and next whole houses rocked, while bells rang. "Terreinuoto! terremuoto!" shrieked the population, as they rushed widely reeling into the streets, invoking the aid of their favorite saints. Then came tha replica, or return earth-wave which hurltd them with ir-resistil le force sgninst the tottering walls, oe casioning in many cases intense sickness. After midnight Soveral ether shocks were felt io the city; but although the wildost pan ic reigned, during which ruffians profited by the occassion to plunder the deserted houses and commit 6utrages.it was found when day light returned tint no life had been lost, and that the damage to buildings was confined to staircases having fullen,and walls having been fissured. But although Naples thus escaped ascrib ed by the sorperstious to the belief that the blood of St Janharlus hid liquified of its own accord ruin, vfi"Je spreading, terrible, and awful as that fore.shaddwed in the Apocalypeg fell upon the land. Throughout the provinces, and nearly in every commune, buildings of all discretions was OVrnhulmed in common destruction, snd so sudden and violent was the shocks that thousands of human beings had not time to escape from their houses beneath the ruins of which they were buried In Potenza.a town of fifieCo thousand inhab itant!, about ninety miles southeast of Naples not a house rem ained In a habitable state Our penS," say tbe writers of the official re ports of the awful calamity, "fall in terror from bur hands," and no wonder, when we are assured by tbe Same authorities that this terrible and wide-spreading earthquake killed upwards Of thirty thousand human beings, be sides' injuring thousands who were buried be neath the ruins, in some cases Tor days be lore being exhumed; The phenomena1 atlehdmg this tremendous visitation were most remarkable. Tbe ground in many districts is stated to have rolled' like waves. At Resina the entire town and1 neighborhood' were in'a stale of vibration from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. on the 30th Decern- ber. At Naples, from the 16th to the 30tb of that rn'on'tn, eighty-fonr shocks were felt.and these would in all p"ro liability have been attended with great destruction1 tnd loss of life had not Vesuvius opened after the 16th of December . ' For a day or two," jays a spec tator, writing from Naples, "the mountain had been singulary undemonstrative, but on the very night of the earthquake, subsequent to the shocks, a new vent was opened, and a great quanity of smoke and stones were thtown out. A lew days after, a sound, of a violent discharge of artillery, was heard, tf a huge column of stones was shot up. It Would be useless to speculate on what might have been the consequence bad this valve not beett opened; but one fact is undeniable, that Naptea bas escaped with thiklsgs of the houses.' Mariner! it lea state that they felt tbe shocks as if their barks had struck npon the rocks;nthers sS If iNSy bad be hi twirled sud dcnlr round the vortex of a whirlpool. The effect of earthquakes npnh theses heg been much studied by Mr. Mallet. Re states that when the earth-wave passes tinder the deep Water Of tbe neean.il probably shows no prog ress at tbe surface, ' bat as it arrives In sound- Inrs.and gels into water more and more ahal low, tbe ondulation of tbe bottom, tha Crest of the long flat-shaped eartb-wave brings alotig with it carries upon bit back, as it weto-4 corresponding tqueont ondulation, slight, fong" Ind flat, upon the lurfeee of tbt water, fh it, which may be called the forced sea-wave ol eartbtfaalesV tnd1 which bat no proper motion of I U 6o, communicates tha eartbquske shocks to ship tt te, as If they had a truck upon rock." . Tbt general direction of the) earth-wives iotrtb-east of Naplet seems to bavt been from north to south, crossed however, not unfro quently, by other waves rejoiled, producing the replica or return-shock, Involving certain destruction to every object within Ui infltf- enee. At Polenta the motion was violently ondulatory, accompanied by verticial and leap log movements, causing furniture to bound upwards. Mr. Mallet, who was commissioned by tbe Royal Seociety to examine the earth shaken provinces, informs us that Soponari, a town of eight thousand inhabitants which experienced return shocks, wss absolutely reduced to powder; and photographs executed tinder bis directions show tn many instances the ordinary apparent vorticose offect of the motion. At Padua a photograph new belore ns represents a large stone statue of the Vir gin tamed on its pedestal; and lamps and ChanieKerJ Suspend from tbe ceiling were in many instances observed suddenly to swing at right angles t) their first direction of mo tion. Through out extensive areas the Und was8eemed with deepfissurts arising from landslips or ' ether Secondary causes, and roads were movod two hundred feet fromtheir original positions. Although tbe earthquake was not felt Sen sibly at Rome.the stoppage of several delicate instruments in the Observatory of that city leads the R;V. Director, Padre Secchi, to tbe conclusion that the earthquake passed under that City. Mr. Mallet traced it north of Naples, until the effects from it became lost in th alluvium near Terraeina; but in the par allel lime-stone bills and results were obsorv able ss far as Sevmonta. It would be easy to cite additional facts il lustrating tbe damage caused by this earth quake; Enough, however, has been said to show tbat the phenomena attending it were of the most awiut and ruinous nature; for be sides the destruction to property ami life, tbe catastrophe, oCC urine as it did in mid winter, Caused the poor houseless inhabitants, Who were obliged to encamp in the open ground, gaeat additional suffering, further aggravated by tbeir mdolent and supersutous habits. No wonder that the Neapolitan dreads the winter earthquake. Some travelers say: We spent the night of August 2d, 1849 on the summit of Vesu vius. It was shuddi ring and trembling with seeming sgony. We lean, d our breast on tne hih rim of the inner cone of the crater when it was belching up melted lava many feet above our beads. A river of lava was poured out on the eastern side, lorminga river of fire a mile and a ball long and a mile wide, glow ing sun beams. This vis will be Lutts.-Much as all rigbi minded men may regret the intemperate and ,11-timed speech of Senator Sumner, it cannot be said that Slavery does not daily illustrae tbe ''barbarism of Slavery". Take tho case of Waggoner, the free man told into Slavery by ''barbarians" in N wport, Ky. Fiom the Cincinnati Gatctte we cut the following showing how men who steal wil1 also lie. On the ariival of Mr. Eckart and G. P. Webster at Alexandria witGv'ths order of njunetion, tbey found the boy' Waggoner sold, although ten min ites had not elapsed since the arrival of the Sheriff's party. Webster immediately approach' d the Sheriff, II. D. Helm, who was coming from tho direction of th'u hiw office of J. U. Nelson, and asked or Waggoner ; the Sheriff answered tbat he had left in Cote pa ny with Dr. J . Q. A. Foster of Newport, in (be direction of Canton, a station on the Covington and Lexington Railruad. At that momeut, Waggoner was locked up with Foster in the office of Nelson, which was within fifty feat frortt whore the party stood, and the Sheriff repeatedly stated that he had been taken out of town, but in what direction he did not know. A few moments after Webster left, Foster- came out aud was seen at the tavern, and at 10 o'clock the same evening- be started with the boy in the direction ot Falmouth. Knowing this, the Sheriff permitted the boy to be removed although he had in his posessioh the order of injunction, restraining him and off other from selling or removing him. A young man entered a chapel pafron'ied by the nobility and tbe wealthy, and marched up the broad aisle without a pew being opened to bim. Raving gone to tba furthest extent of the aisle he wheeled around, and marching back again to the door, he disappeared. In a few minutes be reappeared, bearing on hiS shoulders a butcher's block, under tho weight of which he staggered; Alt the time bis countenance was immovable. Tbe people stared, and some in fright started from their seats; with Bibles and prayer-books in hand. At length be placed tho block io the middle of tbe aisle and got upon it. The re proach was felt every pew door new open to him. But no the stranger neither moved nor smiled, but preserved the utmost doCo-am until the Conclusion of the service, when be shouldered bis block, and slowly marched out of the church. The Labor of the Mofrmtain; lt will be recollected tbat Mr. Window", if North Carolina, the Democratic member, of the Covode Committee, made a great outciy on the subject of Republican corruption io the election of Mr, Fcranton to Congress io tbe Luzerne district, Pennsylvania. He de manded that witness should bo summoned, and tbeir testimony turned the tablet on Mr. W. completely. Mr. Winslow asked one of tbe witness bow, the great change in tbat district was effected? Mr. Buchanan bad a very large majority, and yet Mr. Schanton waa elected by tome four thousand plurality. The witnesses replied that the change was to be accounted for, first by Mr. Scranton't per-tonal popularity, and seeonJIy.by Bucbanan't unpopularity. The other witnesses made tbt same statement, end Mr. Winslow declined to exSaifne tho balance, remarking that be was satisfied be had done great injustice to Mr. Scftnt6n,nd Wtruld wake the tmeude hontrablt m tht BoOmv LITTLE-OK-N QlHlfl G 8. If wt crave tht lovt of others, wt must lovt them. Bits, in India, art called flying foxes, and measure six feet from tip to tip of their wings A tortoise has been known to livt to tbe tge of one hundred tnd seven years. Why is a tooth drawn likt a thing forgot ten? It is out of tbe bead. Railroids and stesmboata annihilate space and time, to lay nothing of a multitude ol passengers. One of the' surest signs of laiiness is, that of women using rocking chairs too much. Punch. We kn6w a dandy who is tc extremely fastidious, tbat be is always measured for his umbrella. JfoiicA. Tbe girl who iiiccoeds in winning the true love of a true man makes a lucky 'n, and is herself a lucky mist. .... ' i.. A roan being commiserated with on account of his wife's running away, said, "Don't" pity me till she comes back again." If misfortune comes into yo'ir house, be pa tient snd smile pleasantly, and it will stalk out sgain, for it can't bear cheerful company. If every man's infernal caro Were written on his brow, Bow many would our pity shard,' Who bave our envy now. Tbe question, "Can a man marry his motn r?" was recently demonstrated in the affir mative in Boston. Rev. D. G. Eddy mar ried bis own mother to Mr. Jacob Bacon. Nbws. The St. Paul Pioneer Bars Minn esota has already had tbis year an immigra tion ol 10,000 actual settlers, and farming interests were never more promising. Old Bacheior Sneer would like to know what kind of a broom the young woman in the last new novel, used, When she swept back the raven ringlets from her classic brow. How many a man, by throwing himself to tho ground in despair, crushes and destroys foTever a thousand flowers of hope that were ready to spring up and gladden all bis path way. Trtis Old Mas's Secret. An aged clergy man, who had known not one day's illness, was asked his secret. ''Dry feet and early rising," was bis reply; "these are my only two precautions " Baron Staatsb'urg, who baS imported a Cashmere goat, intending to raise his own cotton to make camol's-hair shawls with, wishes to know if there is any difference be tween Southdown mutton and mutton down south. A military officer, one day, while review ing bis company, happened to be thrown from his horse, and, as be lay eprawliogron the ground, said to a friend who ran to bis assistance, "I thought 1 bad improved in horse manship, but I find I have fallen rf." Tbe following conversation recently oc curred in a confectioner's shop in Bristol be tween two "fast" urchins under twelve years oi age: "Tom, do you smoke much now ?" ''No, the cigars are so bad now that unless a man (?) imports bis own tobacco, be can't get on with comfort." Picki.es. An excellent way to make pick les that will Keep a )car or more, is to drop them into boiling hot water, but not boil them; let tbem stay ten minutes, wipe tbem dry, and drop into cold spiced vinegar, and they will not need to be put into salt tad water.Blowing out a Candle There is one small fact in domestic economy which is not generally known, but which is useful as saving lime, trouble and temper. If tbe Candle be Mown out holding it above you, tbe wick Will not smoulder down, and may therefore be easily lighted again, but if blown opon downward tht contrary is the case; Waste not, wast not. A gentleman who had pat aside two bottles of Capital ale to recreate some friends, discovered, just before dinner, that bis Servant, a country bump kin, had emptied them both. "Scoundrel!" said his master, "what do you mean by this?" "Why. air, I saw plain enodgb, by the clouds tbat it were going to thunder, so I dr nk up the ale at once, lest it should turn sour, for there's nothing I do abominate like waste." Two dshdfeS were, Some time ago, taken before a Dublin magistrate charged with "in tending to fight a duel." Tbe justice, Who was a shrewd and waggish man, bad stroog doubts as to tbt really pugnacious inclina tion of either of the professed beligorents; to ha dismissed them opon a promise "not to carry the matter further," but added, "Gentlemen, I let yon off this time; bat, npon my conscience, if y6o are brought again before me. I'm blest if I don't bind you both down to fight." Tbey did not fight a second time. ' '' Lao'iis and lowers, "Red cbeeks are only oxygen in another shape. Qirlt anx ious to wear a pair will find tbem where the roses do out ofdoort." "Will they, indeedl" lemarked Mist Josepbint Hoops, as she laid down the number of tht paper containing tht extract "Well, if doing as tbe roses do willhelD aladr to color, one might as well never get op at all for I'm certain tart that th. flowers etev in tbeir beds all dav. f ow, if I'm over metamorphosed Into anything horticultural, I hope it w'dl bt into a camtllia tfco r the onlrveeetables that ever get a chance) to go to tbe opera gracious gooo aettt" TrumbuU'n Exposition of the Printing Corruption. r Eonator Tro'rabull's speech at Philadelphia,' albeit delivered io tbt open air, in a smart shower, contained tome rery sharp points - His brief exposition of tbe printing corruption U quite tbe most masterly thing we have yet seen on tbat su'.iject It was at follows: ,. I now watit to show you bow this work was dotfe, and make this point clear to you. One day six ordors were given for priming Post Office blanks. Tho question was asked, "Could tbe printing have been executed if this printing contained in six orders had been! contained in one order?" Aoswer: "Yes sir,"' Question "ius'tes" well?" Answer: "Muchf more economically to the printer." A voice "Ah, as!" and laughter. Question: "Can you1 conveniently state thedifferenc is the price of these six orders, computing them as separate orders' and Computing them as one order?" He answered: "Without any allowance for composition, these six orders would have cost $13,15: their actual cost was $9l.I5!' Now do you understand bow they managed to give Mr. Wendell $01 15 for work which couli hive been done for $13 1C? A VofcE Tell us the way; bit. Tbcmdull The way was this: they gave out the printing, for instance, of fifty Post Office blanks.and the printer charged for composition for setting up tbe type. That order was given, say at 9 o'clock in the morn ing, and half an hour after a second order comes for printing fifty more Post office blanks anJ the printer charged for setting op tho a second time. At ten, another order is given for GO moro, and be charges for sotting the type a third time. And so on the ordors aro multiplied; and iu one day six separate or ders for Post Offce blanks were given swelling the expenses of printing tbem, from thir-teon dollars and fifteen cents, or, if one com-' position is included, from twenty-six dollars and fifteen cents to ninety-one dollars and fifteen cents! Hear, bear. And that is tha way your Government is managed, and that is tbe way tbe expenditures of your Govern niont bave been doubled, and more than doubled, during the rule of the party which bad been in power since 1852. I cannot detain you on this question in tbis rain. Tbis ia but one illustration; the same sort of execution! of tht law runs through tbe army contracts and through tbe navy contracts. Some ot you know something about the manner ia which live oak wts" purchased for the navy, and you know something about the coal con tracts, and in this way tbe money was raised to corrupt the ballot-box and cheat the people. Now, fellow citizens, are you for retain ing in power a party guilty of such acts at these? "No." The difficulty li not in tho law, but in its execution- Tbe price for tbt public printing is fixed, but wbo would have supposed tbat a public officer would be guilty of such an outrage as to give separate orders for each Post Office blank be wanted, in order to swell the profits of tbe printer? The people of Illinois, with one of the rails' Abraham Lincoln split out thirty years ago,' have taken a purchase under this Admins tratioa. We bave p-icd up tbe Augean sta ble where theae Democrats have been revel ling for the last eight years, aud we only want Pensylvania to get boldofthe end of tha rail with us, aud we will overthrow the struc ture . Cheers. An Artistic Thief. Tbe greatest pleas'- ure enjeyed by Prince Gortschakoff, it is said is to sit in his dressing gown in a large arm chair, before an easel on which there ia a fi;ie picture. Crossing bis legs, and twinging t no on the other while he plays with his slipper and smokes cigais, he gazes for hours together on the picture. lie has a fine gallery of modern pictures, and be bad a valuable album containing sketches by the best livin(' artists; Two or three years ago a French diplomatist asked to seethe album; to bit! surprise be found the best sketches were got e and said so to the prince. "True enough."' said tbe latter; "my best sketches have been stolen out of it." ''SHen! do you suspect by whom?" "Oh, yes one of my messen gers; be tooS to imitating me in my love for art, and the rascal helped himself out of m album." "Oh, dear, no! Tho puppy showe-such deucedly good taste in tbe selections b-s mado, I Could not thibk of having him arrested."Tni Carolina Wo kk or 1780. The vir. tue and magnanimity of the Charleston ltdietv vies with tbe Spartans of old. Nothing aa:r equal tbeir adherence to the independence of1 A me ric t. The vanquishers strive all in their power to' Induct them to partake of their1 amusements, but ill tbeir Importunities can not prevail upon any of them to add a lostr- to their balls, etc. Tbey, sensible of tbfU't . ... it..:. ., t.... - ' Lief to take no pleasure but fn retiring fron pat; . view, to bemoan the cause ol -uffenng libc tv. When nothtne but tmnniul Hcatm. . - tion appeais to be hovering over every frien '. to freedom, they, like true heroines, dieeove ' an invincible firmness and resolution. . Wen the men half to steady to tbeir Country'-, good tt the women; a nation could boas' more illustrious natives than South Carol ip . To the everlasting glory of the sex, many examples can be adduced of ladtcr fxnorti-their dearest connections to behave mhh becoming fortitude; anxious lor their hrm" earnestly urging then to persereranoe, wb tbey by laudable economy art topporti' tbeir families. Are not these things noat to reanimate tbt Carolinians to recover tht oppressed Country 1Frmk ISaorft Eairf I ' tin JUvoluHm, .